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Looks a really promising player, Huijsen but desperately frustrating that we didn't get him when he was available at such a low price a year ago.

Is there any definitive info about seating for this? Obviously we're West but I'm lucky enough to have a ticket in Block 124 and I can't for the life of me figure out if it's with our fans

Hoping for extra time and an epically long penalty shootout (preferably going into the earlier hours of the 12th)

Welcome aboard, bonny lad. Do you know what time the cup final kicks off?

Heard the same thing. Mitchell is apparently hell bent on Tranquillo Barnetta.

Fucking hell! Imagine that. It'd be absolute chaos

Based on how we've played this season so far, especially off the back of Saturday, I can only see a defeat here. Possibly a pretty heavy one.

New to this thread and have lazily not looked at all of the replies. I'd be gobsmacked if nobody has mentioned Kenedy against Cardiff. And even if they have he deserves another mention. Utter dogshit. Edit: Just seen the first reply

Lock this thread. Lock the Guehi thread. Lock the Simakan thread. Lock the Tapsoba thread and let's all get on with our miserable little lives.

This bald cunt still tossing it off in Amsterdam or what?

Aye, I meant just get the window shut and lets get on with the season!

Bollocks to this. Get us to Saturday morning and let's focus on the football. Still think we're gonna have a very, very good season.

Welcome back, Sandro

Fitz? Fancy a kick about, fella?

And add Fraser, Lewis and Vlachodimos in a swap deal for Guehi, Eze and Wharton

271 pages for a fella who's never kicked a ball for us. This place is nuts like

Footy Manager / FIFA written all over it, this. We have a bloated squad with players we want to shift and can't. PSR is fucking us over and the club is finally being run by (seemingly) professionals at every level. We're trying to build a healthy, competitive squad in a sustainable fashion. Chucking money at an ageing Milan Skriniar and/or a well overpaid Jadon Sancho might satisfy those 'we need bodies' fans but it's so brutally short term and the opposite of the sustainable model we need to create...from scratch lets not forget. On paper, Almiron/Murphy as our options on the right may look woeful but we didn't struggle to score goals last season. I don't doubt we'll improve that side of the pitch at some stage but it needs to be the right signing at the right price. It's pretty straightforward logic. The owners can absolutely afford to splash £80m and get the Guehi deal done, sure. But the club can't. The owners can afford to throw cash at a short term right winger who might improve us slightly but who has little to no re-sale value. Again, the club can't. Sure, it's a disappointing window if we don't manage to sign the kind of players we would all have liked to have seen at the end of last season, but no more disappointing than aimlessly throwing our budget away on ageing players or players with a questionable attitude/injury record. I may well feel disappointed if we don't strengthen beyond what, admittedly, little we've done so far, but I'm so far from being in the 'negligent', 'travesty' etc camp. The owners have turned us into an ambitious football club with an aim to get us where we, as fans, want to be. That isn't something that happens within a few years, especially with all the PSR/FFP bullshit.

I think it's very simple to look back on Bayern interest in January and say "We should have sold him when we had the chance", but we were in the midst of a desperate injury crisis and had we cashed in on Tripps at that point with potentially no incomings, there'd have been uproar.

Fun while it lasted

Seems like such a lot of money but it's probably because we're just not used to being that club. He's only 24 and his stock is already pretty high. The thought of him playing alongside Botman, potentially for years, is pretty delicious. I'm sure we have other targets but there's clearly a mindset within the club that this can get done and that he'll make a huge difference to the side. I'm all for it. I think he'll be class.

I recently moved to Cleethorpes so Grimsby away would be class

"The last big recruit of this summer transfer window" Haven't made our first one yet like

I don't expect that we would get anything close to that kind of money from Saudi. But he's better than £8.5m in todays market is what I'm saying. His goals and assist stats may be questionable but he has other attributes that could be more important in certain games next season than £8.5m is right now.